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Jimmy Carter: ‘Fortunately, There Was No Fox News When I Was President’
newsbusters.org ^ | July 24, 2015 | Sarah Stites

Posted on 07/24/2015 12:25:17 PM PDT by PROCON

It’s old news that Jimmy Carter believes Jesus would support gay marriage and some abortion. But Fox News? Well, Carter doesn’t like that.

Earlier this week, NY Times reporter Philip Galanes sat down for lunch with the former president and black author Jacqueline Woodson to discuss issues of race and religion, including the confederate flag, black-white relations and same-sex marriage.

Galanes pointed out that both Carter and Woodson went “door to door” as Christian missionaries when they were younger. Woodson went as a Jehovah’s Witness, but no longer practices.

Galanes understood. “They’re not so hot on gay and lesbian issues,” he posited.

“But I still consider myself a Christian,” Woodson – who is lesbian – responded. “I deeply believe in many Christian values: love people; do the right thing; know that there’s good in everyone, that God’s looking out for all of us.” Sounds like Woodson is picking and choosing what parts of Christianity she likes.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics
KEYWORDS: cancer; foxnews; georgia; jimmah; jimmuh; jimmycarter; mediabias
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To: PROCON

Fortunately for the US and the world the peanut farmer from Plains didn’t get a second term in 1980 thanks to Ronald Reagan.


21 posted on 07/24/2015 12:37:53 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: PROCON

Ah, Memory Lane!

I was 16 when Carter took office. *SPIT*

My folks had an 18% Mortgage on our home. Credit Cards (they had ONE!) were 22% interest.

Gasoline? WHEN you could get it, you had to wait in long lines for it.

Electric and natural gas bills through the roof!

My folks both worked, but I know they were hanging on by their fingernails. Sis was still in High School; I graduated early and joined the Army BECAUSE THERE WERE NO JOBS and Uncle Sam would help me pay for a USEFUL college degree. (Note that I did not say, ‘College Education,’ or ‘College Experience,’ LOL!)

We ate a LOT of Mac-n-Cheese and hot dogs. I mean, it’s not like we were starving to death, but we certainly were NOT getting ahead or THRIVING.

Now why does that seem so familiar, 39 years later?

Ronaldus Magnus was the first President I was old enough to vote for. And I never looked back...though I am STILL looking for another Reagan.

Going on 40 years, now...


22 posted on 07/24/2015 12:38:49 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Jim Robinson

23 posted on 07/24/2015 12:40:22 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: PROCON

That’s why he was re-elected. What...?


24 posted on 07/24/2015 12:41:43 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: PROCON

A BIG FU TO YOU JIMMY


25 posted on 07/24/2015 12:43:16 PM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Oh, yeah. I’m still an expert at deciphering Hollerith code.

Card says, “FReep You Jimmy Carter!!”


26 posted on 07/24/2015 12:45:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: PROCON

The Onion cant do better than this.


27 posted on 07/24/2015 12:47:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: PROCON

And somehow you still sucked a$$, Jimmy.


28 posted on 07/24/2015 12:48:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: PROCON

““I deeply believe in many Christian values:”

You need to believe in one thing, Jesus Christ as Son of God sent to die for your sins. Be loving and kind is moot if you do not believe. Believing also entails followings His Word.


29 posted on 07/24/2015 12:49:52 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: PROCON

Yup. If Fox had been around, his presidency would have been a failure.


30 posted on 07/24/2015 12:52:19 PM PDT by ModelBreaker (')
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To: PROCON
If there had been a FOX News, Jimmy would have lost in an even bigger defeat to Ronaldus Magnus.
31 posted on 07/24/2015 12:53:40 PM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Oh, those are memories.

In 1984 my wife and I bought our first house at a 13% interest rate, and that was the cheaper VA rate.

It took Reagan a few years to turn it around, but turn it around, he did.

32 posted on 07/24/2015 12:54:19 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Typed on an IBM 029 Keypunch Machine, no doubt.


33 posted on 07/24/2015 12:54:28 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: PROCON

Jimmah is finally right about something, had Fox News been around he may well not have served his full four incompetent years.


34 posted on 07/24/2015 12:54:39 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: PROCON
My fond memories of the Carter years:
  1. Driving a gas guzzling clunker because even they were cheaper than an 18%+ auto loan.
  2. Working two part-time jobs while carrying a full-time college load.
  3. An economics course which promoted a theory called the Phillips Curve to explain why unemployment and inflation would both continue to rise in tandem indefinitely.
  4. A sinking feeling that even when I earned a useful degree, I'd never be able to get a decent paying job or start a family.
  5. Burning wood because fossil fuel based energy was so expensive.

35 posted on 07/24/2015 12:55:03 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: exit82; Diana in Wisconsin

But does it have superscript “th” anywhere?


36 posted on 07/24/2015 12:56:22 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: PROCON

Didn’t need a Fox exposé to show that you were ineffectual, Jim.


37 posted on 07/24/2015 12:56:24 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: PROCON

Yeah, in those days, even the left-wing media hated you!


38 posted on 07/24/2015 12:58:10 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: PROCON

Think of it this way, Jimmy: your approval rating back then had nowhere to go but up. So FoxN couldn’t have hurt you too much.


39 posted on 07/24/2015 12:58:33 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Jim Robinson

Card says, “FReep You Jimmy Carter!!”

It does! It does! :)


40 posted on 07/24/2015 1:02:01 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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